FRENCH ASSEMBLY

Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 8

FRENCH ASSEMBLY

AH HISTORIC MFETIKG

COMMUNISTS CAUSE UPROAR.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

PARIS, August 10. The stage Was set at the Palace of Versailles this morning for tho brilliant and dignilied historic meeting ot tho National Assembly. The old Opera Hall had been specially prepared for (.lie occasion, and was lighted by electricity. The public galleries were crowded, those present including many diplomats and fashionably attiiAd society women, but as soon as the proceedings opened the Communists and extreme Socialists turned the meeting into a bear garden. When M. Selves, President of the Senate, read tho agenda, pandemonium broke out. The Communists rose- in their places, banked the desks, and continued tho uproar practically throughout the proceedings. They whistled, hooted, and shouted “Fire, fire,” “To the madhouse,” “ Long live reaction.” Later M. Deriot, a Communist, refused to leave tho tribune until a file of soldiers, headed by the one-armed General Pellemier, entered the Chamber and compelled him to step down.— A. and N.Z. Cable.